Today, 20 March, file sharing service iFolder , blocked a few days ago for posting on the share of child pornography, resumed work.
Recall that on Thursday we ‘ve written about a search data center, Golden Telecom, in which several servers were disconnected and sealed, and a popular RGhost iFolder.Ru, owned by Agava, stopped working. This case, like the story of the torrent tracker Torrents.ru, caused a wide resonance in RuNet. Representatives of the company Agava called police conduct “an unprecedented event, which threatens the existence and development of any business in runet”.
Caused the temporary closure of file-sharing service metropolitan police department that was that, through him, unknown to distribute child pornography. Late on Friday evening, Chief of the Office of Information and Public Relations metropolitan police department Viktor Biryukov, assured journalists that the efficiency of iFolder “will be restored in full after the necessary investigation and to avoid further spread of child pornography.” According to him, the suspect in the spread of child pornography through the resource is already installed and will soon be arrested.
previously PR-director” Agawa “(the developer and administrator of resource) Hope Frank told RIA Novosti, currently have a resource of about 1,5 million registered users and track all downloads are impossible.
March 19 at the premises of the data center, which houses the sealed servers, looked for clues and necessary corollary to the data. In turn, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs agreed to accept assistance from experts Agava. On the proposal to resume service by blocking with the right to police files, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused. The same day, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev instructed to conduct an audit of the case closure iFolder and legality of search activities on Agava. According to available information, guidance Nurgaliyev gave President Dmitry Medvedev.
According to the head of the Office of Information and Public Relations metropolitan police department Viktor Biryukov, the suspect in the placement on the iFolder movie pornographic content is already installed and will soon be apprehended.
Now on the home page iFolder posted a message calling for the users “do not violate the law by using the service.” In honor of the resumption of the service management decided to increase the download speed to maximum, for which the pages temporarily removed most of the advertising and retained only that which is placed under the term advertising campaigns. In addition, the restriction on file size is now raised from 100 to 500 MB.
The statement also expressed gratitude to the President of Russia for support and attention to the industry and it is hoped that further legislation of the country will be brought into line with modern realities of the Internet, and the fight against crime will be carried out without stopping the service. The statement also says: “We never fought, do not fight and have no intention to fight with the guardians of order. We only successfully challenged the excessive, destructive, law enforcement, having stood in the end your interests. IFolder continues to help curb crime in the network. His non-stop work does not interfere with the identification of offenses. Please do not create the problems themselves and us: do not try to break the law with the help of our service “.
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